Look Inside: Protest Tautohetohe by Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns

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Supporters of the Springbok rugby tour march down Queen Street, Auckland, 9 May 1981. Photograph by Anthony Phelps, New Zealand Herald.

Support for the tour

In the photograph above, supporters and members of the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights (SPIR) are marching down Queen Street, Auckland, in support of the impending Springbok tour. Some are wearing ‘Support the Tour’ badges. About half of the New Zealand population supported the Springbok tour, but very few adopted the material strategies of the anti-tour movement. SPIR was one of the most organised and visible of the pro-tour groups. Its mission was to welcome all sporting and cultural groups to New Zealand, without political interference. The two young men opposite are wearing T-shirts printed ‘FART’ (For All Rugby Tours) – a riposte to HART’s acronym.

PROTEST TAUTOHETOHE

‘Support the Tour’ badge, 1981. Produced by the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights. New Zealand Rugby Museum (2005/84/2). ‘Pro-Tour people’, Palmerston North, 30 July 1981. Photograph by Miles Hargest. Purchased 1983 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (O.003004).


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